Tuesday Tweets

Truly impressive to have turned what was a steady low-profit business for 8,000 years (driving people around for money) into a spectacular money loser with accelerating losses. https://t.co/iAcRxCPNRI

— Nicole of Hell's Kitchen 🚌🚆🚇🚲🇺🇸🇫🇷 (@nicolegelinas) August 5, 2019

I can't fix racism or gun laws, but I can run a content analyses and empirically illustrate that Fox News aggressively frames immigration in terms of threat, criminality, and infestation... and you can share it if you want to help folks understand how media framing works. pic.twitter.com/j1LBuZQpBd

— Dr. Danna Young🇺🇸✌🏻 (@dannagal) August 4, 2019

Yeah, that's the ticket. https://t.co/LVIEz7oR8U

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) August 4, 2019

Particularly in conjunction with this.https://t.co/u2jx80e21H

— Mark Palko (@MarkPalko1) August 3, 2019

Forget it Jake. It's...Pundit Town.

— driftglass (@Mr_Electrico) August 1, 2019

There were those like Josh Marshall who got most things right in 2016, those like Nate Silver who went from mostly wrong to mostly right, and those like Nate Cohn who were pretty consistently wrong. I'm not sure why we should still be listening to the third group.

How much time do Republican presidential candidates spend discussing policy ideas that are popular with the majority of the American people? https://t.co/862d7xLyll

— Osita Nwanevu (@OsitaNwanevu) August 1, 2019

This goes to the heart of the problem with Chait's education writings. His heart's in the right place and he cares deeply but his knowledge of the field is spotty at best. Among actual educators, this issue has been widely discussed for years.

An incredible scam where rich kids can buy extra time to take the SAT or ACT. How can the boards let this go on? https://t.co/F0F81esaX8

— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) July 31, 2019

1858 man argues telegraph makes information travel too fast:

"Ten days brings us the mails from Europe. What need is there for the scraps of news in ten minutes? How trivial and paltry is the telegraphic column? It snowed here, it rained there, one man killed, another hanged." pic.twitter.com/yz7mf7BoPL

— Pessimists Archive Podcast (@PessimistsArc) August 2, 2019